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Astronomers - 1,780 words
Astronomers Part One Brief Descriptions of the
Following Astronomers: Walter Baade : Baade was a
German-born American, whose work gave new
estimates for the age and size of the universe.
During the wartime, blackouts aided his
observatons and allowed him to indentify and
classify stars in a new and useful way, and led
him to increase and improve Hubble's values for
the size and age of the universe (to the great
relief of geologists.) He also worked on
supernovae and radiostars. Milton Humason :
Humason was a colleague of Edwin Hubble's at Mt.
Wilson and Palomar Mtn. who was instrumental in
measuring faint galaxy spectra providing evidence
for the expansion of the universe. Jan Oort : In
1927 ...
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Black Holes - 1,163 words
Black Holes Peters 1 Ron Peters Dr. James R.
Pierce CP English 2 20 April 2000 Black Holes A
Black hole is a theorized celestial body whose
surface gravity is so strong that nothing,
including light, can escape from within it's
surface. Gravity is the key to a black hole's
immense power. The black hole's strong gravity
keeps captured material from escaping. For
example, if Earth were the same mass it is now but
had only one-fourth its present radius, the escape
velocity of someone standing on its surface would
be twice what it is now. Black holes have a power
far greater than our minds can imagine. This
report will go into further discussion on these
massive holes in space. Now, though, astr ...
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Black Holes - 797 words
Black Holes Black Holes There are many strange and
wonderful phenomenons being discovered throughout
our Universe. One of the most intriguing is the
concept of a black hole in space. Astronomers have
discovered a black hole just 1,600 light years
away from Earth. The National Radio Astronomy
Observatory cataloged this black hole in the
constellation Sagittari on a star called V4641. A
black hole is one form of a dead star. A star has
three choices when it dies, it can: shrink until
it is a white dwarf, shrink until it is a neutron
star, or keep on shrinking until it is a point in
space with an infinite density known as a black
hole. A black hole is an extremely dense outer
space body that ha ...
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Black Holes - 1,762 words
... lack Holes by Table of Contents I. What are
black holes? II. Where do they come from? III.
Interesting facts about black holes. IV. How are
they discovered? A. X-ray Emissions B. Exotic
Energy Sources C. Star speeds D. Masers E. The
Baseline Array F. Hubble Telescope G. Satellites
V. Quasi-Stellar Relations VI. Locations A. M87 B.
Milky Way C. Andromeda D. ?????? E. NGC 6240 F.
A0620-00 What are black holes? Black holes are the
remains of a massive star that has collapsed and
shrunk to a tiny point in space. They have all of
the gravity of the star concentrated into that
point. Black holes are difficult to see because
they cannot be seen. They cannot be seen because
they are spinning fas ...
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Bright Shining Lie - 1,698 words
Bright Shining Lie A Bright Lie Shining: John Paul
Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan has used
this novel to tell the story of the Vietnam
conflict utilizing the perspective of one of its
most respected characters. This is the story of
John P. Vann who first came to Vietnam as a
Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and later returned
as a civilian official. It is the story of his
life from the beginning to the end. It is also
Vietnam's story; it offers clear reasons for the
conflict, and why it was such a disaster for all
those involved. Vann arrived in Vietnam on March
23, 1962 as part of the new U.S. Military
Assistance Command Vietnam. He became a chief
advisor to an ARVN infantry divisio ...
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Cable Modems: Cable Tv Meets The Internet - 3,910 words
... downstream traffic travels through the cable
modem's Media Access Control mechanism. The MAC
mechanism's functions are fairly complex. The MAC
mechanism's main purpose is to implement MAC
protocols under the direction of the CMTS. MAC
protocols are used to time-share the cable media
among the various cable modems in a cable data
network. The MAC processes can be implemented in
hardware, or a combination of software and
hardware. Both the CMTS and the MAC mechanism
implement MAC protocols to perform ranging
procedures to compensate for cable media delays
and line losses. The CMTS also interfaces with the
MAC mechanism in each cable modem to assign
upstream frequencies and upstream time s ...
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Drug Testing - 1,438 words
... ays Morphine 2 to 4 days Methamphetamine 2 to
4 days Valium 30 days (Bina 124) Today many
companies are doing what the FBI has been doing
for years, using hair follicle testing as a means
of drug screening. Hair follicle testing is a drug
testing method that is perhaps, less demeaning,
less invasive, and less likely to be tampered with
than the well-known urine test. Although, it is
more reliable than urine testing it has its
problems that need to be addressed. It is
necessary for one to understand how hair grows to
be able to understand the testing procedure. Hair
grows within a small cavity known as the hair
follicle. Hair growth occurs when cells divide in
the matrix near the bottom o ...
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El Grecos Toledo - 1,056 words
El Greco's Toledo High atop a hill of granite,
surrounded by the gorge and river Tagus sits the
ancient and formidable gothic Cathedral and
Moorish palace, Alcazar, of Toledo, Spain.
Toledo's skyline has changed little since El Greco
immortalized Spain's religious centre in
1597-9(Cardillac 28). El Greco's natural talents,
his "schooling," and the flare of his adopted
Spain, combined to produce an artistic genius. El
Greco's ability to convey manneristic images that
were so original in conception and color that the
detail gives a miraculous conception of cohesion
to the whole work(Wethey 61). When studying this
canvas, however, one must examine the passionate,
moonlit sky; the artistic licen ...
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Electric Cars - 1,506 words
Electric Cars Electric Cars History: Early
electric vehicles may have appeared as early as
1830. Scottish inventor Robert Davidson
constructed the world's first prototype electric
vehicle in 1837, but historians generally credit
J.K. Starley, an English inventor, and Fred M.
Kimball of Boston with building the first
practical electric cars in 1888. Later in the in
the decade, William Morrison of Des Moines, Iowa,
constructed his version of the electric vehicle in
1891. His vehicle required 24 storage battery
cells, took 10 hours to charge, and could run for
13 hours. It could carry up to 12 people and had a
4-horsepower motor. His car could reach speeds up
to 14 miles per hour. Morrison, how ...
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Henry Ford - 1,866 words
Henry Ford When Henry Ford was born on June 30th,
1863, neither him nor anyone for that matter, knew
what an important role he would take in the future
of mankind. Ford saw his first car when he was 12.
He and his father where riding into Detroit at the
time. At that moment, he knew what he wanted to do
with his life: he wanted to make a difference in
the automobile industry. Through out his life, he
achieved this in an extraordinary way. That is why
he will always be remembered in everyones heart.
Whenever you drive down the road in your car, you
can thank all of it to Henry Ford. Through his
life he accomplished extraordinary achievements
such as going from a poor farm boy to a wealthy
inv ...
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Humanism During The Renaissance - 1,828 words
Humanism during the Renaissance During the
renaissance, there was a renewed interest in the
arts, and the traditional views of society came
into question. People began to explore the power
of the human mind. A term often used to describe
the increasing interest in the powers of the human
mind is humanism. Generally, humanism stresses the
individuals creative, reasoning, and aesthetic
powers. However, during the Renaissance,
individual ideas about humanism differed. Writers
and philosophers of the Renaissance time period
expressed their opinions about human nature and
humans roles in the universe through their
writings. Pico della Mirandolas "Oration on the
dignity of man", which glorifies hu ...
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Hypernova - 828 words
Hypernova Mysterious Blast, Hypernova Gamma-ray
bursts (GRB) have left astronomers scratching
their heads since the late 1960s when they were
discovered by U.S. military satellites. Part of
the mystery began to unlock when astronomers at
Northwestern University detected the first
observational evidence for the remnants of
hypernovae, explosions hundreds of times more
powerful than supernovae, last year. Hypernovae
may be the possible source of GRBs, making them
the most energetic events known in the Universe
besides the Big Bang. Northwestern astronomer
Daniel Wang identified two hypernova remnants in
galaxy M101, also known as the Pinwheel galaxy
some 25 million light years away, in April 1 ...
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Immortal Poetry - 1,843 words
Immortal Poetry Annonymous Christopher Marlowe:
what did he contribute to English literature and
how is his writing reflective of the style of the
times? Christopher Marlowe contributed greatly to
English literature. He developed a new metre which
has become one of the most popular in English
literary history, and he revitalised a dying form
of English drama. His short life was apparently
violent and the m an himself was supposedly of a
volatile temperament, yet he managed to write some
of the most delicate and beautiful works on
record. His writing is representative of the
spirit of the Elizabethan literature in his
attitude towards religion, his choice of writing
style and in the metre tha ...
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It Is Time To Reaffirm Our Actions - 1,462 words
It Is Time to Reaffirm Our Actions On Equal
Opportunity The history of this Nation is being
carved with the chisels of our incessant struggle
towards freedom and equality. Evidently, that
struggle has continually propelled us scores of
years away from slavery and flagrant bigotry. Yes,
we can not deny to ourselves that our odyssey to
the realms of crystal-clear equality has not yet
ended. Though, attempting to surpass the craters
of injustice with fabricated bridges of unequal
treatment will merely make our journey that much
more treacherous and insurmountable. No matter how
benevolently intended, practicing preferential
treatment based on race, ethnicity, and gender
ultimately results in gr ...
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Modern Day Plague - 1,020 words
Modern Day Plague Modern Day Plague Argument:
Mankind has become too dependent on computers, and
we as a society are covering up our errors and not
facing the facts, to avoid panic. About four years
ago, a new pop headline came hot of the press
rumoring something about home computers having
problems when the year 2000 hit. The year 2000,
that's six years away, people thought. Many
believed in six years it would be fixed. Thus, the
headline got thrown into the archives along with
egg yolks being high in cholesterol and the FBI
and the CIA being against each other. Well, today
the computer problem has resurrected itself. The
downside is that, the second round of hype, as
some have called it, i ...
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Monte Cristo What Was His Deal - 405 words
Monte Cristo. What Was His Deal Erick Sawby Euro
Lit Mrs. Shepard Monte or not Monte; that is the
question (Said in a deep Shakespearian drawl)
Edmund Dantes, a strapping young sailor, was the
prime years of his life during the nineteenth
century. He was a good person, was well mannered
and frankly had a lot of things going for him. He
was affianced to the lovely Mercedes, he captained
a good ship, the Pharon, and had whom he thought
been good friends. It was at this stage in his
life, however, that things were about to do a
complete turn and take 14 years away from him. His
envious shipmates planned to ruin him, overtake
his ship, and wed his fianc, so they set him up to
be arrested and car ...
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Orion - 736 words
Orion Orion Down fell the red skin of the lion
Into the river at his feet. His mighty club no
longer beat The forehead of the bull; but he
Reeled as of yore beside the sea, When blinded by
Oenopion He sought the blacksmith at his forge,
And climbing up the narrow gorge, Fixed his blank
eyes upon the sun. ~The Occultation of Orion by
Mr. Longfellow~ This poem was written about the
Greek myth of Orion. The story says that Orion,
the son of Neptune, was a handsome giant and a
mighty hunter. His father gave him the power of
wading through the depths of the sea, or, as
others would say, walking on its surface. Orion
loved Merope, the daughter of Oenopion, king of
Chios, and sought her in marriage ...
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Problems With Measurements Of The Distance Of Stars - 750 words
Problems With Measurements Of The Distance Of
Stars This is one of the most commonly asked
questions and deserves an honest answer. Below is
first a short answer then a more thorough answer.
There are three things we need to consider when
answering the starlight question. 1. Scientists
cannot measure distances beyond 100 light years
accurately. 2. No one knows what light is or that
it always travels the same speed throughout all
time, space and matter. 3. The creation was
finished or mature when God made it. Adam was
full-grown, the trees had fruit on them, the
starlight was visible, etc. Let me elaborate on
these 3 points. The farthest accurate distance man
can measure is 20 light years (so ...
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Quasars - 212 words
Quasars Stephen Ferruzza Astronomy project #3
Quasars Theories of how quasars are created is
based on the idea that the universe is expanding.
Amoung astronomers, the popular consensus is that
the earth is in an expanding univerise and the
laws of physics will hold true beyond our planet.
Some astronomers belive that at the beginning of
the universe was a time when many galixies would
be visible to the naked eye because the universe
was more condesed than it is at the present day.
In the centers of many galixes would be radiant
objects that looked like stars but seemed brighter
than all the stars in its galixiy. Astronomers
call these objects quasars andbelive their
presence to be more plent ...
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Quasars And Active Galaxies - 1,270 words
Quasars And Active Galaxies Amy A. Zeleznik Peter
Anderson GSC 158 11 November 1999 Quasars and
Active Galaxies The astronomical world is full of
phenomena beyond the average person's imagination.
The technical tools and analytical methods
astronomers use are very complex. The enormous
numbers and distances are mind boggling. Theories
behind astronomical phenomena are based on yet
another theory. In order to understand the concept
of quasars and active galaxies, one must first
have a feel for the astronomical numbers involved.
Secondly, a basic knowledge of the tools of the
trade, and finally, a working knowledge of
astronomical jargon. Once there is a working
knowledge of the aforementioned ...
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